Basically, the Chat room is self-explanatory. You log on, and chat. There aren't many confusing features in this chat room. The only options you can change are the nick name, status, font style and color.
Here is how you use it:
Scroll down. You may have to wait a minute for the flash-based chat client to load.
Enter your forum handle/nick name for easy recognition.
Start chatting.
Watch out for the members with the "@" sign in front of their nick names. They are the room OPs and they control the chat room. They may kick out or ban any user from a chat room anytime they want (ex. offensive language or something similar)
NOTE: If you don't like the chat room interface you can download an IRC client from www.mirc.com and use that program without worries of you browser crashing while chatting.
For ALL the IRC users:
The TCCoA chat room is based on the IRC chat. It has channels, commands and all the other things that the IRC chat have. If you are an IRC user you don't have to log on to the chat room through the TCCoA web site. Use your IRC client. Here are the parameters:
